Issue 30431

Summary:

Check box for suppression of Bitmap glyph

Product:

gsl

Reporter:

tora3

Component:

code

Assignee:

AOO issues mailing list <issues>

Status:

CONFIRMED ---

QA Contact:

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

issues, kamataki, maho.nakata, masaya.k

Version:

current

Target Milestone:

AOO PleaseHelp

Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Issue Type:

ENHANCEMENT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

Description	Flags
Depicts comparison between Bitmap and vector glyph on high quality display.	none
Is a bug doc.	none
A hand-made tool that extracts and assembles internal tables of TureType font file.	none
Illustrates relationship between OOo and font properties of Desktop	none
The same one in Draw.	none

Description tora3 2004-06-18 08:41:21 UTC

Do you have a chance to add a new option for suppression of Bitmap glyph in 
Tools > Options > ProductName > View near an option Screen font antialiasing?

A need of controlling whether use of Bitmap glyph embedded in a TrueType font 
file or not is increasing. Nowadays, many users are using high-quality
computers. In such case, no Bitmap glyph is required any more. It has a 
poorer quality than that of vector glyph on high resolution, high depth in 
color display. Bitmap glyph, however, is still needed on old computers. 
So Adding a new check box in the Tools > Options window and controlling use 
of Bitmap would be a good strategy to make OOo/SO/SS more competitive.

Comment 1 tora3 2004-06-18 08:45:37 UTC

Created attachment 15971 [details]
Depicts comparison between Bitmap and vector glyph on high quality display.

Comment 2 tora3 2004-06-18 08:46:08 UTC

Created attachment 15972 [details]
Is a bug doc.

Comment 3 tora3 2004-06-18 08:51:07 UTC

To take Bitmap glyph away,
 1. mkdir work
 2. cd work
 3. perl ../ttfar -xvf ../xxx.ttf
 4. rm EB*
 5. perl ../ttfar -cvf ../xxx-Bitmap-removed.ttf

Comment 4 tora3 2004-06-18 08:53:33 UTC

Created attachment 15973 [details]
A hand-made tool that extracts and assembles internal tables of TureType font file.

Comment 5 tora3 2004-06-18 09:02:36 UTC

Oops, 
Correction:
  5. perl ../ttfar -cvf ../xxx-Bitmap-removed.ttf *

Comment 6 christof.pintaske 2004-06-18 13:14:00 UTC

cp->mmp: maybe you ? ;-) 

adding a checkbox is easy, however currently we would require to restart the
Office, and it's not just TrueType but X11 bitmap fonts in general. I'd like to
address font related issues in the next major after 2.0.

Comment 7 matthias.mueller-prove 2004-06-18 13:28:13 UTC

This looks like your G11n area, Falko.

Comment 8 matthias.mueller-prove 2004-06-21 10:40:29 UTC

forgot to assign it to you. It still looks like G11n.

Comment 9 falko.tesch 2004-06-21 12:39:05 UTC

FT: I agree with CP. Since we have more than enough on our schedule for 2.0 I
postpone thisissues to OO.o Later

Comment 10 Joost Andrae 2004-07-12 09:31:07 UTC

JA: this can be set via environment variable:

SAL_EMBEDDED_BITMAP_PRIORITY to 0

In this case it's just a decision if we implement and where we implement a
checkbox to deactivate the suppression of bitmap glyphs if they're availble
within a font. In my opinion it's a "no brainer" to get this into 2.0

JA->FT: please think again about your decision

Comment 11 tora3 2004-07-12 22:47:27 UTC

I have changed my position from adding new options to removing similar ones.

Relationship_between_OOo_and_Desktop.png illustrates a relationship between OOo
and Desktop properties. OOo Windows version does not have such options that 
control appearance of fonts since Windows itself does it. Similarly, recent 
Gnome has a feature to control appearance of fonts. OOo could use the properties
that a user can specifies through Gnome Desktop interface.

Now, I don't think it would be a good idea for additional options that I 
proposed before as long as we have another option - an environment variable, 
SAL_EMBEDDED_BITMAP_PRIORITY -. 

However, the addition of new options could be acceptable until most Linux 
distributions employ a way of controlling font properties. I would like to 
leave a decision to Falko.

Comment 12 tora3 2004-07-12 22:50:09 UTC

Created attachment 16426 [details]
Illustrates relationship between OOo and font properties of Desktop

Comment 13 tora3 2004-07-12 22:51:16 UTC

Created attachment 16427 [details]
The same one in Draw.

Comment 14 falko.tesch 2005-10-20 20:23:38 UTC

FT: Re-assigned to requirement default user